Maxims
La Rochefoucauld
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express the same ideas as the great French satirist of private life.
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concerns and important matters when the violence of its desires
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Virtue, 1, 25, 169, 171, 182, 186, 187, 189, 200, 218,
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say that few, but himself, had a two o'clock of the morning valour.]
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15.--The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections
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himself one of the most lovely in the world, and who complained he
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should not be looked at too closely, for there is hardly a man who in
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Gratitude, 223, 224, 225, 279, 298, 438, XLIII.
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ones, without any regard to the alterations made by the author in the
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it should attach itself more or less firmly, according as persons agree
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the whole of the eighteenth centuries, was doubtless greatly influenced
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impute all their success to prudence and merit."--Swift, Thoughts On
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of our faults, while we only like to be told of our neighbour's.
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proner to take up a new one than when wholly cured.
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several indecisive skirmishes, the decisive battle was fought at Paris,
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Merit, 50, 92, 95, 153, 156, 165, 166, 273, 291, 379,
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Crimes, 183, 465, XXXV, XXXVII.
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180.--Our repentance is not so much sorrow for the ill we have done as
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It is just this: the book is a mirror in which we all see ourselves.
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a manner that on leaving Charles observed, "He had never entered a
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XCI.--The wise man finds it better not to enter the encounter than to
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sans resistance A d'inevitables traits; Et, d'une demarche egale, Passez
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own good qualities for the good qualities of others, which generally do
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LXIX.--It is a common thing to hazard life to escape dishonour;
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find we miscarry more in our duties than in our interests.
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appearances of religion. He appears ambitious without being really so.
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tiresome people whose deserts would be ill rewarded if we did not desire
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all the actions of his life. (Ms., Fol. 310, Max. 494.)
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judge rightly but at a distance.
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thirty-five, when he became mixed up in the war of the Fronde; the
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Reputation, 268, 412.
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or a wish to take the lead, The pride of a mere child with a new sash
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more of what he wants to say than of his answer to what is said. The
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discontent that I often say what I have to say very badly.
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XLVI.--It is very hard to separate the general goodness spread all over
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agree that it is the extent of the light in the mind that produces all
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is a faithful expression of the stormy succession of its thoughts and of
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